Last November, just as Post Paradise was about to begin recording their new CD, “Digging Secrets,” the studio they’d planned to use folded. Bad news for the studio, but it ended up being a blessing in disguise for the band.

“The Blasting Room was nice enough to get us in, but there were a few months where we really had no idea what was gonna go on,” said the Fort Collins indie-rock band’s frontman Nick Duarte. “So we used that time to go back into the practice room and said, OK, what can we fix and what songs aren’t wowing us.”

At first it was incredibly frustrating not to be able to record but the extra time really paid off in the end, said cellist Amy Morgan.

“It would have been a completely different record if we had ended up recording earlier at the other studio,” Morgan said.

“The Blasting Room is kind of a rock ’n’ roll icon, so it was really cool to be invited in,” Duarte said.

Ten days and one 50-pound bag of Dazbog whole coffee beans later (Morgan did the math, the band and recording staff drank a total of 48 cups of coffee daily) the album the band calls its best yet was done.

And now they are working hard to make sure that everybody knows it. In addition to a big push toward marketing and promotion of the band, pint glasses, T-shirts, phone cases, stickers, banners — all with the Post Paradise logo — are now available for purchase. “I went a little crazy with the merch this time,” said Morgan, who does the art design for the band’s merchandise and CD covers.

“I think this (CD) is kind of the pinnacle of our awesomeness,” she said, half-jokingly.

“It’s never felt this good, we’ve never played this well, we’ve never been ... firing on all cylinders like this before,” Duarte agreed.

That new energy is in part due to the addition of a new rhythm section — bassist Chris Santolla and drummer Mark Roshon joined the group last year.

“Changing up the rhythm section was really kind of a scary and crazy process for Amy and I,” Duarte said. “But it also breathed new life into the band.”

Old riffs that the band had been toying with for awhile but never could get quite right, suddenly came together and the group’s creative momentum took off, he added.

“We all get along well and I think it pays off,” Roshon said, adding that being successful in a band is just as much about the more mundane business end as it is the fun on-stage part.

“Everyone thinks if I can just learn an instrument and get into a band, I’m golden,” he said. “But learning to play an instrument and playing songs is, like, five percent of being in a band.”

“The last year has been a good starting point for the four of us,” added Santolla. “It’s been a good year... and as hard as it can be, that’s life and that’s music and we love it.”